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Posts tagged 1900s.
Anna Pavlova as The Dying Swan (1910)
While touring in The Hague, Netherlands, Pavlova was told that she had pneumonia and required an operation. She was also told that she would never be able to dance again if she went ahead with it. She refused to have the surgery, saying “If I can’t dance then I’d rather be dead.” She died of pleurisy, three weeks short of her 50th birthday. She was holding her costume from The Dying Swan when she spoke her last words, “Play the last measure very softly.”
Did you know?
In 1912 Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera, to covertly photograph suffragettes. The pictures were compiled into ID sheets for officers on the ground.
Today 100 years ago on April 15th, 1912 the Titanic went down on her maiden voyage.
Capacity: Passengers: 2435; Crew: 892
Lifeboats: 20 for 1178 people
Early Wright brother’s airplanes explored basic principles of flight (1901)
The Wright brothers are widely credited with engineering the first aircraft capable of sustained powered flight.
April Fool’s Day in France is a fishy fête called “Poisson D’Avril”
Mother and daughter (ironing and knitting), by Albert Gottheil (1902)
I love Retro
Posting everything from the 1900s to the 1990s.
